JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 01/10/2026Where The Stress Falls has been such an underrated essay collection. I feel robbed that I hadn't been given a reason to read it until now. 010
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 01/10/2026"When books become 'texts' that we 'interact' with according to criteria of utility, the written word will have become simply another aspect of our advertising-driven televisual reality. […] It means nothing less than the death of inwardness—and of the book." – Susan Sontag 112
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 21/09/2026Needless to say that I think this is total nonsense. And more to the point, I'm finding that it poisons a lot of even good faith efforts to engage with art in shared spaces. As soon as you finish a work, the question is "was it good?" and the framework creeps in without anyone meaning for it to. 011
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 21/09/2026So many people are willing to *say* that they think "all art is subjective," but in practice the discussion usually proceeds from there as if there's a quantity of "art stuff," ie artistic value, in each work. "Good" art has more art stuff, and bad art has less. 110
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 28/08/2026Watching Rosemary’s Baby kinda makes the death of the author feel more vindicated than ever as a slogan, despite its weaknesses. 000
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 17/08/2026Framing these as contradictory seems short-sighted to me. Denji's relationships to shounen-esque masculinity and heterosexuality are *constant* themes of the story, and are almost always framed critically. There's no good way to parse so much of the manga if we reduce it to just your framing. 010
Reposted by JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / PoliticsJellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 24/08/2025It's far less depth than the game deserves and maybe not my best post ever, but I wanted to talk about Cross Channel, masculinity, and gender norms. blog.psychopopular.com/other-media/...blog.psychopopular.comCross†Channel and Toxic Masculinity – The Orient ExpressThere's multiple angles that one can bring to Cross†Channel. But I'd like to focus on masculinity and gender here, rather than the broader readings. 1126
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 15/06/2026This applies to other movies of course. It is just that Obsession has had such a long life in cinemas that the performative contrarians got too impatient to keep up the "I always wait for streaming to watch slop" pretense. They needed the discourse dopamine now. 010
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 15/06/2026Infinite comedy to be found here. The contortions that these posts have to go through to keep up the "I listen to indie bands" persona while being trapped by the reality that "backlash" posts are always following the crowd, just in negative. I could read them all day. 100
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 15/06/2026I genuinely love the genre of Obsession backlash posts that is like "Real movie buff here. I love going to cinemas. Finally #nw Obsession (a whole month after it got popular, like any real cinema fan). Deeply mediocre movie. Nothing interesting about it. TikTok slop." 100
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 02/06/2026Something more than a little capitalistic about it all. Lots of art that's domesticated as a one-note cultural identity that you buy the right to embody. Can't say I'm a fan. 031
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 02/06/2026Art that doesn't fit that mould throws them off because they can't reduce it down to the "kind of person" who "consumes media like that." Fandom itself has kinda shifted to fit this mindset, becoming a series of community bubbles based around their shared themes-as-identity. 131
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 02/06/2026Funny tendency that's showing up in discourse around both popular horror hits right now: A lot of people prefer art that didactically tells them what to think so that they can wear those "themes" as a fashion statement. 142
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 16/05/2026Just a very memorable and interesting film. All of its parts come together so well, to such a degree that you're somewhat shocked while sitting there that such a simple premise and such obvious plot turns manage the kind of depth that they do. 010
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 16/05/2026Obviously, the biggest difference that leads to an entirely different genre situation is that one is about genocide and the other about a much more "mundane" reality. But the fact that Obsession speaks to everyday experience makes it more obviously confronting in certain ways. 110
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 16/05/2026Watched Obsession today. To my surprise, my closest emotional point of reference isn't exactly a horror film, but The Zone of Interest. I think they both capture something striking about evil in its solipsism and selfishness. There's this deep asymmetry between culprit and victim that pervades both. 231
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 10/04/2026I'm just a WH Auden account right now 000
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 07/04/2026Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoyed it. 110
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 03/04/2026(Cross Channel spoilers) 020
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 01/04/2026How do I support the Backrooms and send the message to A24 that they should keep letting young creatives remake their passion projects, but with a higher budget, without accidentally sending the message "Hollywood should make movies about memes, and let Youtubers direct them?" 020
Reposted by JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / PoliticsGenma496 @genmajou.com · 31/03/2026The second installment of Sunset Vallachia, the vampire locked room mystery series, is out now! You can read it here: genmajou.com/works/sunset... 197
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 31/03/2026Welcome back, Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere 020
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 27/01/2026For those who recognise the vigilantism in how ICE behaves recklessly and beyond the law, I'd like to once again point to this as one of the more important things I've written. Despite being about a silly little horror movie. blog.psychopopular.com/film/the-purgeblog.psychopopular.comDystopia, Genocide, and Anarchy: Some notes on The Purge franchise – The Orient ExpressShocker: A political discussion about the movies that used a MAGA hat for a poster. A real "drunk looking for his keys under the same streetlight all night" deal. 020
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 02/01/2026Brainstorming novel solutions for the crisis of public confidence in government. 020
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 12/12/2025This means that you can only ever see fascism from its "inside" here, and never grasp its roots in a wider social historical frame. A given TV show doesn't necessarily have to cover that wider perspective, but its lack here is politically problematic. The overall effect is too kind to fascism. 010
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 12/12/2025Its grounded in a first-person sense of life-or-death political struggle. Its avant-garde elements have a semi-Futurist feeling of motion. There's something ecstatic in the way it presents violence. Despite seemingly intending to condemn Mussolini, this approach valorises him as a "great man." 110
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 12/12/2025Here's something of my impressions of the Mussolini mini-series/drama after 5 episodes: it's fun to watch and has a very clear grasp on the retributive psychology of fascism. But stylistically speaking, it kinda extends too much empathy to the emotions and aesthetics of fascism. 120
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 10/12/2025I wrote a short thing on One Battle After Another for those who are interested: blog.psychopopular.com/film/one-bat...blog.psychopopular.comThe Timeless Timeliness of One Battle After Another – The Orient ExpressSome short notes on a film where history accumulates like sediment—where the dead ends of the past pile up layer-by-layer without ever “moving on.” 010
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 04/12/2025sochisttest.github.iosochisttest.github.ioSocialist History Values TestThis is an attempt to make a political alignment test using concrete historical debates. Answer as if you were in the historical moment! 000
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 04/12/2025Literally generic it is so over. 110
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 01/12/2025Fascinated by "Trump 2023" of all years, where is it pulling that from. 020
Reposted by JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / PoliticsJellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 15/11/2025Hello Subahibi fans. Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock: The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi) blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...blog.psychopopular.comThe Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep – The Orient ExpressAn anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subarashiki Hibi/Subahibi) as well as Tsui no Sora. 163
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 25/11/2025I wrote a modestly lengthy thing on social fascism in response to the latest drama on the other site about it. Please give it a read. theorb.substack.com/p/on-social-...theorb.substack.comFor Stalinists, Fascism Doesn't Really ExistThe origins, assumptions, and results of the theory of social fascism 000
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 23/11/2025Here's some quick thoughts on the right's continued failure to face-up to its fascist turn. theorb.substack.com/p/im-a-polit...theorb.substack.com"I'm A Political Theorist from Israel and this is My Nationalism"A quick note on right-wing Zionism and its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week 000
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 23/11/2025I've mirrored some of the recent blog posts to Substack. I feel like Wordpress is becoming less reliable over time so I wanted people to have alternatives. Feel free to take this opportunity to check out my recent post on Subahibi if you haven't. psychopopular.substack.com/p/subahibipsychopopular.substack.comThe Phenomenology of NyarlathotepAn anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subarashiki Hibi/Subahibi) as well as Tsui no Sora. 000
Reposted by JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics杉田俊介 @sssugita.bsky.social · 19/11/2025メアリ・シェリー『フランケンシュタイン』は、怪物の訴えが突き刺さる。男性学的にいえば、怪物はこの世界の根深いルッキズムの犠牲者であり、産まれてこなかったことを夢見る反出生主義者であり、異性からの「心の共感」を求めるインセルでもある。また科学技術のプロメテウス主義=加速主義の犠牲者とも言える。 怪物には理性があり、感情や共感があり、善良な良心もあった。怪物が人間たちから怪物と呼ばれるのは、とにかく徹底的に「外見」の問題である。外見があまりに醜くおぞましいがゆえに、全人類から嫌われ、恐怖される。ただひとつの願いが「異性の怪物を作ってくれ」であるのが、あまりに悲しい。 122
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 18/11/2025I've added a PDF and EPUB to this essay so that people can read it in chunks. Please check it out. 010
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 16/11/2025This is starting in December so there's still time to join if anyone wants to. We have 8 members so far, so don't be shy. 020
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 15/11/2025With how abstract this got, I really want to make sure that the next thing I write will be straightforward literary criticism. That said, perhaps "straightforward" just isn't how I do things. Either way, I still want to write some more stuff about art as art next. 020
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 15/11/2025Hello Subahibi fans. Those who trusted me not to release any new posts for awhile are in for a bit of a shock: The Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep: An anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subahibi) blog.psychopopular.com/japan-and-as...blog.psychopopular.comThe Phenomenology of Nyarlathotep – The Orient ExpressAn anti-philosophical “philosophical” investigation of Wonderful Everyday (Subarashiki Hibi/Subahibi) as well as Tsui no Sora. 163
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 12/11/2025This is the article which I do not recommend. benthams.substack.com/p/how-contin...benthams.substack.comHow Continental Philosophers "Argue"On the unseriousness of the discipline 000
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 11/11/2025I suppose that, even as padding for an article that has no substance, this is somehow less embarrassing than the parts where he tries to engage with authentic human-written examples. In those, he proves that he simply cannot parse fairly basic sentences. 110
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 11/11/2025I wish I had the confidence required to write an article that accuses others of not having "arguments," only to turn around and quite literally direct my own "arguments" at a computer-generated strawman. 110
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 06/11/2025You'll have to follow me back or open your DMs 000
Reposted by JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / PoliticsJellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 04/11/2025I'm going to be organising a small reading group for The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt. It'll be starting over the holidays and run at a relaxed pace over the whole year for the sake of the slower readers. Leave a reply to express interest. I'll DM details later. 531
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 05/11/2025All of that said, don't get your hopes too high. Never place your faith in politicians, they will always let you down that's their job. 020
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 05/11/2025Congrats to Mamdani. He seems like an exceptionally talented politician. I hope he's able to accomplish some good, and also able to keep applying his same pragmatism and agility to actual governance. A DemSoc who knows how to play ball this well is rare. Even AoC and Bernie had clearer limits. 130
JellyJar | Mystery novels / Weeb stuff / Politics @psychopopular.com · 04/11/2025We should wrapping up right around the time Trump passes an Enabling Act after the midterms. Final session will be held in the internment camps. 020